Office of the Press Secretary
(New York, New York)
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For Immediate Release June 8, 1998

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

I applaud the Supreme Court's decision today to make sure that
drug traffickers who carry firearms -- whether on their person or in
their car -- are subject to the stiffest penalties possible. Crime
rates have fallen in America for six years in a row, but guns and drugs
remain serious problems among our youth and in many of our
neighborhoods. Today's decision is one more victory for law
enforcement and law abiding citizens in the fight against crime and
drugs.